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PlantBoy

-- PlantBoy --
The goal of the game is to harvest crops, but for your crops to grow you need water! And planet-rabbit-land, there is no water! So you must kill rabbits, harvest their blood, and use it to water your crops!

You will need either a Gameboy emulator, or a flash cart to play this, this is a *REAL* Gameboy DMG game!

-- Controls --
D-Pad - Move
A - Shoot
B - Water Crops

-- More details --
PlantBoy was a challenge, the goal was never to win, or even do well! I set out in the hopes of creating a simple, functioning *real* Gameboy game, written fully in z80 assembly in 48 hours.

Having about only a weeks experience in z80 assembly, and only little knowledge of assembly in general this was a big challenge. I'm happy with how far I got though, I plan to refine the code a little in the next few days.

Oh, and if anyone actually does play this on a physical Gameboy, and not an emulator, please record a video of it and show me! I've only been able to test this on emulators myself.

-*NOTICE*-
If you don't want to download an emulator, you can download the .gb file and play it on this website (It's a Gameboy emulator in flash!)

Whoa! You did this in raw assembly! That is crazy awesome! I only delve as far down to GBDK and C. So, that must have been quite an effort! Once my replacement Flash Cart arrives I'll be putting this on there pretty sharpish!

Look forward to any further developments on this in the future. Damn, ASM jamming, that's nuts, crazy cool nuts :D

There is no "web" version as it's a Gameboy rom file, you either need to run it through a emulator, a real Gameboy (using a flash cart), or you can use the online-flash based Gameboy emulator I have linked at the bottom of the description if you don't want to download one yourself. (You still need to download the rom file, to use it on the flash-emulator page)

Even though this is super simple, it's really astounding you completed a gameboy game in 2 days. I enjoy the simple graphics, they look really clean and sleek, especially considering the gameboy restrictions. Good job.

Thanks! It was definitely a big challenge, I tried to learn as much as I could the 5 days leading up to LD, and in the end I still had to learn things mid-LD. Like the rabbits, I had no clue how I was going to implement an arbitrary number of rabbits in assembly, but I got it figured out in the end!

The full source is up on github, though some things I could have done much better (I should really refine the collision code into a few nice sub-routines, that I can use for any collision), and github seem's to have bugged the indenting a bit, I should fix that to..

@Weloxux lol, yeah..I didn't get time to properly implement a numbering system with tiles, if you get a score above like, 255. Then the score tile will start going through the rest of the game tiles :p

Wow, this is awesome! Congrats on completing this and submitting to the compo, that really is an achievement. I'm looking forward to perusing the source, too. I really like the graphics, this would have been a nice look even if it weren't restricted to the Gameboy hardware!

My only suggestion/critique is that the counter for "blood" makes it seem like you could collect more than one at a time, which was slightly confusing at first, but overall not a big deal at all.

Really, awesome job. Congratulations on the accomplishment!

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